Jan Spaander

Jan Spaander was a Dutch doctor who was known for his efforts to save the lives of several wounded British soldiers during Operation Market Garden in World War II. In September 1944, Spaander and British medical officer Graeme Warrack convinced Kate ter Horst to lend her elegant house to the British as an overflow hospital, and the house soon became a crowded and bloody field hospital. Spaander and Warrack later met with General Wilhelm Bittrich of the German Wehrmacht and convinced him to accept the British wounded into German hospitals as prisoners of war, an act of gentlemanship.